Windows Media Player 9 Series

Windows Media Player 9 Series
	Version of Windows Media Player
	Windows Media Player 9 Series on Windows XP build 2600.5512, playing the sample track "Highway Blues" by Marc Seales
Version	9.0
Compatible with	Windows 98 Second Edition; Windows 2000; Windows Me; Windows XP; Windows Server 2003; Mac OS X
Codename
Latest build
Released	2003-01-07
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About
Replaces
	Windows Media Player 8
Replaced by
	Windows Media Player 10

Windows Media Player 9 Series (codenamed Corona)^[1] is a version of Windows Media Player, released in 2003. It is the last version of Windows Media Player that supports Windows 98 SE, Windows Me and Windows 2000. It was included in the RTM release of Windows Server 2003. It was also included in the Windows Security Update CD for Windows 98 SE build 2222B and Windows Me build 3000A from February 2004. This is the last release of Windows Media Player for Mac OS.

Installing the Service Pack 2 or 3 on Windows XP replaces Windows Media Player 8 with this version. According to Microsoft this was done to fix security vulnerabilities that were present in Windows Media Player 8. Microsoft advised to uninstall the Service Pack if a user wants to remove Windows Media Player 9 Series.^[2]

It was replaced by the Windows Media Player 10 in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. To restore Windows Media Player 9 on Windows Server 2003, Microsoft advised to uninstall Service Pack 1 or 2 for that operating system. It is also possible to manually downgrade by replacing wmp.dll, wmploc.dll, and wmplayer.exe with a copy from Windows Media Player 9 and running regsvr32 wmp.dll and deleting the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Setup\Installed Versions.